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...It is expected to publish fuller figures next week, with PwC following next month and KPMG later in the year....
...“Structural reasons as well as the interest rate environment are both contributors,” said Jill Carey Hall, equity and quant strategist at Bank of America....
...Clifford Chance has hired Jill Concannon Christie as a US securities and high yield partner, based in London. She joins from White & Case....
...US courts have rarely allowed buyers to escape signed merger and acquisition deals if a company’s operating performance declines before closing....
...Before he turned 40, Black had risen to become Drexel’s head of mergers and acquisitions. One of his clients was Carl Icahn, who used Drexel funds to take over Trans World Airlines in 1985....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...Tapestry, the parent company of Coach, overhauled its executive team last year after its acquisitions of Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade struggled to integrate....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...“Private equity can buy up companies, fix operations and make them more nimble,” says Jill Fisch, a professor of corporate law at the University of Pennsylvania....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Tracking stocks owe their origins to General Motors’ acquisition of the EDS IT services business from Ross Perot in 1984....
...Fiancée Lillian Bellamy is his latest romantic acquisition (although the ink is not dry on his decree nisi from haughty ex-wife, Miranda)....
...However, ULA’s reliability record may be challenged by a significant looming upheaval facing its main rocket, the Atlas V....
...addition to the release of weaker-than-expected April trade data on Sunday, investors were also digesting reports in local media that the country’s economic performance would be “L-shaped” rather than “V-...
...“But with the bad news out for now, it would be easier to aim for a V-shaped recovery.” Despite the writedown, Toshiba maintained there was no change to the potential of its nuclear business....
...ULA is developing a new rocket system called Vulcan to replace the Atlas V and Delta rockets and end the company’s reliance for Atlas engines on the RD-180 , built in Russia....
...In January, a district court judge vacated the guilty pleas of four defendants who were charged with insider trading related to IBM’s 2009 acquisition of software firm SPSS....
...Here is an opinion summary from law firm Simpson Thacher describing how the court judged predicted beta in a 2010 appraisal case, ” Global GT lp v. Golden Telecom”....
...reflected in TIBCO’s capitalization representation in drafts of the merger agreement provided to both Sponsor B and Vista and discussed with their respective legal counsel prior to the submission of any acquisition...
...Core, formerly known as CKX, was acquired by Apollo in 2011 and was known primarily for its interests in the Elvis Presley estate and its purchase of 19 Entertainment, the media company started by Simon Fuller...
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...He has backing from his agent and American Idol creator Simon Fuller and Miami-based billionaire Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless distributor Brightstar Corp....
...Warner faces competition from rivals such as BMG Music Publishing and industry figures such as Simon Fuller in the auction of labels Universal has to sell as a condition of its EMI acquisition....
...Bankruptcy We discussed this at some length on Monday because it reminded us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
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